Quotes about Equality
Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
- Barack Obama
I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.
- George W. Bush
I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.
- George W. Bush
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
- Ronald Reagan
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
- Abraham Lincoln
The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more laws, the less justice.
- Cicero
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
- Abraham Lincoln
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
- Euripides